This is the second part of one 18th/19th century Platonist's account of what the mysteries imparted at Eleusis were really all about. No ergot theory here, that's for sure.
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2022-08-10 19:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This is one 18th/19th century Platonist's account of what the mysteries imparted at Eleusis were really all about. No ergot theory here, that's for sure.
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2022-08-10 15:11:11 +0000 UTC View PostTranslated by Victor Michael Hamm (1943)
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Here are the concluding 72 Theses of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s “900 Conclusiones” in which he attempted to highlight the merits of Cabala as he understood it (i.e., in its purely Christ...
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2022-08-10 15:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostDe Deo Socratis (On the God of Socrates) is an ancient Latin work on the existence and nature of “daimons” (spirits) which were thought to be the intermediaries between gods and humans. This tr...
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